Onkar Ghate on Ayn Rand’s Enduring Appeal

ARI’s Onkar Ghate recently gave a wide-ranging interview to The Politics Guys podcast on the enduring appeal of Ayn Rand and her philosophy of Objectivism. Host Michael Baranowski spoke with Ghate for almost an hour, covering such topics and questions as:

Reclaiming the term “selfishness”

Is Rand’s philosophy a reaction to her family’s hardships in Communist Russia?

Objectivism, America and Judeo-Christian values

Why Rand was neither a libertarian nor a conservative

Individual rights and externalities

The enduring appeal of Rand’s novel The Fountainhead

Are there American politicians today who embody Rand’s values?

The Politics Guys podcast features “conversations about American politics, economics, history and culture with authors and researchers from across the ideological spectrum.”

Subscribe to New Ideal to receive the latest in-depth content from ARI.

Tom Bowden

Onkar Ghate

Onkar Ghate, Ph.D. in philosophy, is a senior fellow and chief content officer at the Ayn Rand Institute. A contributing author to many books on Rand’s ideas and philosophy, he is a senior editor of New Ideal.

You may also like

As 2018 comes to an end, we wanted to glance back at our first year in print pixels. Since New Ideal launched in April, we’ve brought you incisive articles, video, and audio on current controversies and timeless debates. . .

In this New Ideal video Q&A session, I respond to a question about Ayn Rand’s ethics from a reader named Sophia, who writes: I am a high school student in 10th grade who has recently become interested in philosophy. . .